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Interestingly for me, the annoyances of the new MacBook have faded into the background (no escape key, worse keyboard). I learned to hit ctrl+[ in vim, and don’

by slewis 8y ago

Interestingly for me, the annoyances of the new MacBook have faded into the background (no escape key, worse keyboard). I learned to hit ctrl+[ in vim, and don’t mind the keyboard until a key sticks for a little while. Meanwhile I can’t imagine going back to the thicker form factor. I don’t mean to downplay people’s issues, and Apple definitely didn’t do a wonderful job here. But I do find that my day to day experience is net positive. Humans are very adaptable.

huebnerob 8y ago
I agree and have the same feelings, but there should at least be an option for people who don’t want to prioritize size over performance. Apple is the worlds biggest company, they can do better than ‘one size fits all’. Yes, that mantra is also part of their design philosophy, but it needs to be executed intelligently not blindly. There’s a long but diverse tail of professional use cases, and there’s definitely not a single box that can hold all of them.
matwood 8y ago
It may be unpopular, but I agree. I held off as long as I could, but finally ended up with a 2017 MBP. It works fine. I like the keyboard feel. It is a bit noisy though, and I worry about failures, but good so far. USB-C means I plug less into the computer than I used to. The dongle situation is a bit overblown. My 2014 MBP already had special cables for mini-display port and a dongle for gigabit ethernet. I am annoyed that Apple cannot seem to just do simple upgrades though. Not every release has to be some out of this world new design.
jkcl 8y ago
I agree with this in principle, but repeated hardware failures are likely to test my patience to its limits. Since I cannot see myself switching to a combination of by and large inferior hardware and (at least what I consider) inferior OS on other platforms without considerable comprises and pain, I've persevered with the OS bugs. Sadly, hardware failures are too disruptive and costly to put up with in the long run.

by slewis 8y ago

huebnerob 8y ago

I agree and have the same feelings, but there should at least be an option for people who don’t want to prioritize size over performance. Apple is the worlds biggest company, they can do better than ‘one size fits all’. Yes, that mantra is also part of their design philosophy, but it needs to be executed intelligently not blindly. There’s a long but diverse tail of professional use cases, and there’s definitely not a single box that can hold all of them.

matwood 8y ago

It may be unpopular, but I agree. I held off as long as I could, but finally ended up with a 2017 MBP. It works fine. I like the keyboard feel. It is a bit noisy though, and I worry about failures, but good so far. USB-C means I plug less into the computer than I used to. The dongle situation is a bit overblown. My 2014 MBP already had special cables for mini-display port and a dongle for gigabit ethernet. I am annoyed that Apple cannot seem to just do simple upgrades though. Not every release has to be some out of this world new design.

jkcl 8y ago

I agree with this in principle, but repeated hardware failures are likely to test my patience to its limits. Since I cannot see myself switching to a combination of by and large inferior hardware and (at least what I consider) inferior OS on other platforms without considerable comprises and pain, I've persevered with the OS bugs. Sadly, hardware failures are too disruptive and costly to put up with in the long run.